• Journal

    Explicit? Bio 101

    Bio 101 by Dazee Dizzle I will be the first to say abstinence is not a good look on me.  However, that has been my experience more often than not. Although I hate to reveal my age, if you knew it then you would know it is really hard to be abstinent.  Many people go through this so I know I am not alone. A person can fantasize though.  I watched porn for awhile.  It worked for a bit.  Then I got tierd of that.   Here I was, a single mother going back to school,  at “that” time in her life and studying biology. While I was sitting in biology,…

  • Early Music

    99

    ​10/23/2017   ​By Joy Merriweather lol Joy Lynn Clark (This is the year that I was doing a little test to see if I need to change my name. So that there was my name toast. I decided I’m not changing it but that’s how it originally showed)   18 or 9.  I made these songs in 99 as Friday Knight.  I produced this song in the college studio.  Break Da Glass by Girlfriday Special acknowledgment to Jamiroquai. 

  • Journal

    The Cemetary On the Colored Side (Buried Alive)

    By Joy Lynn Clark 3/12/2021 Published on: Oct 9, 2017 @ 05:03By Joy Lynn Clark (this story has been edited from the original) 10/12/2017 I have four ancestors buried at Burr Oak Cemetery on the famous Colored Side.  Mother Mamie Roberts, Bishop William Matthew Roberts (CME ), Mamie Thompson and George Thompson I.  My ancestor Bishop William Matthew Roberts started Chicago’s Original Roberts Temple. Bishop William Matthew Roberts has an honorary street on Chicago’s Southside (crossing 42nd Street west of Vincennes).   The Historic church was much farther East (near Drexel) and was demolished in the mid-1990’s. I am no blood relation to the founders of the New Roberts Temple CME located…

  • Journal

    Singing Stones

    I AM THE ONLY ONE AND, IF I COULD VISIT THE MOON I WOULD TAKE A SKATEBOARD .  .  . 9/23/2017     By Joy Merriweather   Ok, I am not the only one but it sure feels like it.   The title of tonight’s installation is Singing Stones.  This particular exhibition features the artists from Palais De Tokyo and Institut Francais. I laughed.  French black people in Tokyo.  Got it. Maybe.  Maybe not.